This morning saw me and a few colleagues featured on the
Radio 4 Today programme, talking about the research funding shortfall in mental
health generally, and for psychosocial perspectives in particular. You can hear
the interview here and our piece
starts at 2:18:32.

This coming week, on Tuesday 29th, I’m attending
a meeting to discuss outcomes measurement in mental health services - to
support the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health ,
to ensure that mental health services address the issues that really matter to
people and (in part) to consider some of the implications of linking outcomes
to ‘payment’ and commissioning processes. I'll then meet with colleagues from UKCP (the UK Council for Psychotherapy) and then I hope to drop in (only for ten minutes, I fear) to a meeting of the Psychologists Against Austerity (PAA).

On Wednesday 30th March, I’ll be concentrating on
University business (at the University of Liverpool).

On Thursday 31st, I’ll be discussing
psychological health and wellbeing at work with colleagues from the BBC (not,
on this occasion, discussing broadcast issues; instead looking at the health
and psychological wellbeing of employees).

At present, Friday 1st April is free (although
that might be someone’s idea of a cruel April Fool’s day joke), so I’ll try to
get some writing done…

And… I’ll probably check my free online course

Now on its fourth run (32,000 active learners thus far), my
free online course (MOOC), which returns on 13th June.
Although we’ll need to put in some considerable work before this kind of education
is routine, it’s a really exciting model – I’ve had over 60,000 people registering
an interest, and 32,000 active learners. More, probably, than I’d see
face-to-face over my entire career.